Just a Rascal

“Do you think Hemingway actually drank as much as people said he did?”, Stanley Kubrick once asked of Dispatches author, Michael Herr. “‘Cos if he did, I think I should send my writers a case of his favourite drink.” Fuck knows what the beverage of choice is round the XL offices, but this writer would happily splash out on a round for any number of inferior record companies. The label which brought us The White Stripes, Electric Six and The Avalanches now treats us to this visionary marriage of melodramatic funk and Queen-like mock operatics. Mesmeric.